O, how many part with Christ at a crossway, like Orpah, that go furlong or two with Him, but when He bids them prepare for hardship, then they fairly kiss and leave Him; loath indeed, to lose heaven, but more loath to buy it at so dear a rate.
Issue: Issue 7
EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MATTHEW 17. 14-21 14. And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 15. Lord have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16. …
THE FEAR OF GOD There is a fear of God which is attached to love, and which has respect to the laws of God, the ways of God, the purposes of God, and the holiness of God. This, the fear of saints – the fear of children • results from regeneration, wherein “the love of …
MARK YOUR BIBLE This is a practice I would strongly urge on every lover of the Word of God. However you may have cause to lament the seemingly little present profit that you derive from its perusal, unless tested by proof and experience, you can have but a very imperfect idea of how a note, …
Justification acquits, cleanses, delivers from; takes off the filthy rags of nature’s righteousness; says, “Deliver him from going down to the pit.” Sanctification adopts, clothes, purifies, delights in; replaces with the wedding garment of the Redeemer’s righteousness; declares, “I have found a ransom.”
OTHERS Lord, enable me, I pray Thee, to think and pray much for others. In proportion as I am privileged to do so, I shall be diverted from self and its various infirmities, wants, and necessities. As to trials and afflictions, and corresponding requirements, I am sure these can bear no comparison to the multitudes …
ADVICE TO PREACHERS 1.Understand your text. 2. Confirm your view by private reference to the original language. 3. Strengthen your opinion by once more reading the whole context. 4. Avoid a display of learning. Criticize in the study; teach in the pulpit. 5. Divide your subject – it helps the hearers. 6. Speak in short …